Okay, let's look at one of the quatrains I've cited..

4 - 29
The Sun hidden eclipsed by Mercury
Will be placed only second in the sky:
"Of Vulcan Hermes will be made into food,"
"The Sun will be seen pure, glowing red and golden."
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Could the "Sun" mean gold? No, because he describes the "Sun" as being "in the sky". It can't be the actual Sun either, because he says it's hidden, and eclipsed by Mercury. So we have a "Sun" in the sky, but it isn't the actual Sun.

I've interpreted the "Sun" as Apollo, the Greek Sun god. The Apollo capsules were in the sky, so we have a "Sun" that fits the quatrain.

Of course, the planet Mercury is too far away to hide the Sun from our view in an eclipse, unlike our much-closer Moon. So it's not the planet, nor an alchemy symbol, since it too is an object in the sky.

But "Mercury" does fit as the Mercury space capsules, in the sky.

The Mercury space capsule went into a sub-orbital flight. Apollo went into low-Earth orbit, which is slightly higher than sub-orbit. Hence, the Apollo capsule is "hidden" from view, "eclipsed" by the Mercury capsule.

So the first line fits perfectly.

The second line also fits:

Mercury was placed first in the sky (in sub-orbit). The Sun (Apollo) "will be placed only second in the sky" (in low-Earth orbit).


The third line refers to "Hermes". This fits perfectly as Gus Grissom. The alchemy interpretation - which has already failed in the first two lines - is totally silent about Hermes. Because it doesn't fit into an alchemy interpretation.

So just ignore what you can't fit in!!!

Wrong. Everything has to fit in. Hermes can't be ignored. The Sun and Mercury have to fit the description as written.

I hope I've explained my point....

Originally posted by turbonium

Originally posted by Mintwithahole.
Well researched my friend but I don't believe it for a minute. You can make twist anything to make it look more sinisster and mysterious than it really is. for example in Greek mythology Orion, the son of Poseidon,is murdered a by Diana the goddess of the moon, through the machinations of Apollo.
The constellation in the Apollo badge is Orion. Where did Apollo 11 land?The Sea of Tranquility and who was the god of the seas? Poseidon! Diana is the goddess of the moon and Apollo is another name for the devil. Put it all together and you could say this was a prophetic warning that the devil would kill the next generation of lunar astronauts, who will travel to the moon aboard Orion!

Thanks for the reply.

I agree that the quatrains can be twisted into almost anything, since they are so obscure and cryptic in nature.

But we have to ask ourselves if the quatrains were intended to be stretched and twisted to such lengths as in your example above. If a direct interpretation can't be made, then it's pretty much worthless, imo.

For example - I've interpreted the "Sun" as Apollo, the Greek Sun god. That's it. I don't see how it's valid to interpret the Sun as Apollo, and then find a link to Apollo, to make it into something else entirely unrelated to the "Sun" in the quatrain.

I don't see how your example fits in any of the quatrains I've cited - is it supposed to?

No, the example I made was to show just how easy it is to twist and place out of context Nostrodamus' writings. As you say, maybe they were meant to be used in such a fashion, in which case they could be referring to almost anything as he never wrote them in historical order. A kind of century by century account of history would have been preferable. . . However I have to say, some of his prophecies do strike home pretty hard such as the fire of London quatraine. That one really does give me goose bumps. . .